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Any guesses on when PA will stop putting out these daily maps? There's probably some low to mid level guy in Harrisburg who's job it is to update the template every morning and email it out to someone to publish it up. It's not bad work but it's not his dream. The guy is working from home which is a definite step up from the plaster walls of the windowless room where his Dell Desktop had been set up on a brown table. Sure there were birthday parties occasionally but the drudgery of that life wore on him. Should I try to get a new job? Maybe, but these benefits are nice and I don't even know where I would start to look during pandemic. Next year. Yeah definitely next year I'll be ready to branch out and find a job I love. Next year never comes, each step in comfortable brown shoes is one closer to retirement, that's when things will be better....

I'd prefer it were the other way around.

Elk?

The statement made by the NY governor yesterday about "NY having the best skiing in the US" was downright hilarious.

I did post good news in the skison thread regarding NY ski areas. I'm just waiting for the ORDA frequent skier cards to drop so I can purchase one. When are we going to Whiteface?

How can you be irrelevant if you're on the ballot. You're on the ballot.

Why didn't jo get a debate? She's on the ballot.

I mean, does it really come as a surprise to anyone? Regardless of who’s in charge, Americans are fucking ignorant. No matter what it is, if you tell them “you HAVE to do this”, they’re not going to listen.

I've been having fun exploring this: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

Oh Lordy

Also a great way to get dropped by your insurance carrier.

I guess my proofing protocols suck. Carry on Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Direct from horses mouth but as noted no idea how they could actually enforce it. Regarding state website - state employees not always the most efficient workers or their proofing protocols suck Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's still not according to the NY DoH website that was just updated today.

Pennsy’s on NY’s quarantine list. How’s that for good news? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Maybe we shouldn't have two non governmental private organizations completely running the show and dictating the abilities of people to run for office?

Let's not forget that for the most part things are indeed open. Maybe not fully or how they were in January but they are open. The economy took a hit but didn't completely tank. Most jobs that are lost or are on the fence are in the very specific leisure sector. All in all things are pretty OK.

IDK ..I think you're a lot tamer than you used to be. I'm consistently laughing at something you posted.

This morning President Trump said we're rounding the corner and vaccines and therapeutics like REGENERON are coming out soon, so we got that going for us which is nice.

Thanks for the International Data. I'm finding that to be more interesting than US data lately. This is just me being a random dude who like skiing and likes going on the internet, but in my completely irrelevant and not particularly highly educated opinion what you're seeing is the inevitable. Severe lockdowns will decrease cases to a point, it will never be nonzero. Opening up in any capacity will cause spikes around the reopening and then an eventual plateau. I don't think it's possible to contain this or any virus without complete and total lockdown. I've been running this thought experiment through my head for a while now. If our goal is elimination of this Coronavirus, which it seems to be after we shifted the goal posts a few times, then the only way to actually have a shot is the most intense lockdown the human population has ever seen. Give everyone 6 weeks notice to prep and get everything they need and then put in place a full blown, don't leave your home, lockdown for 4 weeks until everyone who has the virus has had it pass through their system until they are not infectious. If all 7.954 Billion of us can get that done then I think we've got this beat. As we've seen though from how this all began is that as long as there is any of this virus in the world it will absolutely spread again. Realistically if we took the most extreme measures possible and got this virus down to 1% of it's current reach it would likely come back to where it is now after lockdowns are lifted because the few that have it cannot stop spreading it. I think one of the reasons we saw good numbers out of Europe for the longest time was that with their restrictions people were staying put in their own countries more. Just a complete guess but I would imagine Americans cross state borders at a higher rate than Europeans cross national boarders.

Not bad considering NY is about the strictest state when it comes to regulations of coronavirus

Agreed. Here's what has me scratching my head though. I used to say "look at Europe...they're doing the right thing" but now this. Appears Australia and New Zealand are still doing it right. I think travel, their location etc has a lot to do with that as they're more isolated.

Considering how close we are to election, I expect the news to keep releasing increasing numbers as a scare tactic

I'm starting to feel as though this isnt going away in November like i was told many times.

Got most of the hardware mocked up for final assembly.....Just need to download the touring binding template....Voile's templates leave a lot to be desired too....but made everything work....Drill press made drilling the holes easy.....They even give you little Ptex discs for the t nuts....I am so curious about how this board will ride....

pics from this weekend - windy most of the weekend, but was able to get out on a boat Sunday for an afternoon...fishing was insanely good.

True....I have two new neighbors in the past 3 weeks...All front platers...

LQD...NJ and Ny folks are spilling in at record levels and they’re snapping up houses over asking price.

I know, right? Require that everyone wears a mask outdoors while participating in a physically demanding activity AND sit one person per chair. PA can only top it by installing bleach guns along most populated trails.

Because there is no independent election board to oversee elections in the U.S.. U.S. elections are controlled by the two main parties and don't want to allow other parties to take part. They routinely act to remove them. The Democratic party sued in PA this year to remove the Green party and won.

Definitely up. I've seen more COVID patients in the past 2 weeks than in the last 2 months.